From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philip Rooke Subject: Re: A remember/notepad add on to org-mode Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:31:12 +0000 Message-ID: <87slpkhfxb.fsf@sarge.yax.org.uk> References: <44137153.9060001@optusnet.com.au> <893e551ad06743bebecfd9e7514caf4d@science.uva.nl> <87lkvedo7b.fsf@sarge.yax.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJH7E-0006OA-Hp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:31:40 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJH7B-0006Iv-Ls for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:31:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJH7B-0006Im-HQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:31:37 -0500 Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FJHBS-000379-QS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:36:02 -0500 Received: from [81.2.121.252] (helo=sarge.yax.org.uk) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FJH7A-0005nI-76 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:31:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Carsten Dominik's message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:28:07 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Carsten Dominik writes: >> ------ >> TODO Something I really must do >> ------ >> and get an entry like >> ------ >> ** TODO Something I really must do >> DEADLINE: <2006-03-13 Mon 10:27> > > This would be harder. How should we guess the date/time for the > deadline? This is clearly something related to my own preferred method of time and task management rather than something I would expect anyone to agree with. Having said that the remember interface is, I think, about allowing you to make a note very quickly whilst concentrating on some other task. In this case what I would like to do is automatically capture the TODO item with a deadline of today (the day I make the note). This forces the item immediately onto my agenda and then becomes something I should deal with. By this I mean I have to deal with the note today, *not* its implied content. At some point in the day I put aside time to go through these "remembered notes" and sort them out: quickly return a call, pass on the action elsewhere, re-schedule to a realistic date, copy off to another org file that is dealing with the issue, re-consider or re-draft a more appropriate action etc.... > 1. modify the remember mechanism, basically giving the user more rope, > for example along these lines: > - by setting a default template that could contain current time > stamps etc. > - calling a hook before and after you edid the remember entry, > booth hooks could be > used to modify the entry > - Invoke org-mode for that buffer and install a special key (C-c > C-c) to get out and file the entry. In particular without inserting > a timestamp after editing, so that TODO entries would remain active. All potentially sound good to me. > 2. Doing it the way Charles proposed, but just going to the journal > file and making that entry by hand. This similar to what I currently do using a home brewed mixture of standard Emacs bookmark functionality and escreen (to stop messing up whatever window configuration I happen to have running). Not pretty though. Would personally prefer something along the lines of 1. Regards, Phil